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Raila: We will jail those who inflated SGR cost

NASA Presidential candidate Raila Odinga (2nd right) with ODM's Mvita MP Abdulswamad Shariff Nassir (left) receives former Nakuru county TNA leaders Peter ole Osono (2nd left) Peter Njuguna (right) former TNA Nakuru county leader, former Assistant Minister Koigi Wa Wamwere at the Orange House,Nairobi. Raila welcomed the leaders to join ODM and NASA. Photo/Elvis Ogina (Nairobi) May 31st,2017

National Super Alliance NASA flag bearer Raila Odinga has warned that should he be elected President, he will deal with those who inflated the cost of the launched Standard Gauge Railway (SGR).

While congratulating the Jubilee administration for completing the project, Raila equally told President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto not to use the project as a campaign tool, citing that it was initiated during the Grand Coalition government.

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